In July there is an abundance of wildlife in our gardens and there’s plenty you can do to help it thrive! Provide food and water for...

As midsummer approaches, and nature’s year nears its climax, there is no shortage of things to report. In fact, it’s hard to know where...

The last month has been a bumper one for sightings. We have either seen, or had reported, spotted flycatchers at The Triangle, corn...

The judges of the Best Kept Village competition deduct marks for litter and weeds. Especially street weeds, the ones that pop up in...

I am doing bird notes this time as Paul is on holiday. April is the time of year when one records the first appearances of our summer...

For the benefit of people, nature, and the planet. https://townandmanor.co.uk/wetland-reserve

It has been a long wait for the first really warm days of spring. Perhaps that was why there were so few flying insects about until the...

As we head into May, many of our summer visitors have already arrived. The swallows turned up in the village in the first week of April,...

May is one of the loveliest months in the year as the countryside starts looks its best after the winter.  It’s a time when we really...

The Muntjac is a small, stocky deer with a characteristically hunched appearance, with its hind-quarters higher than its shoulders. Its...

As the weather gets milder, gardens become very busy places.  Birds and bees start to nest and some species of insects such as moths are...

What a magical time this is, as we transition from Winter to Spring. In the last few days we have seen barn owls foraging, red kites on...

Perhaps surprisingly, many fungi appear during the winter, especially the sort that form patches on tree branches and logs. Margaret Swan...

Gardening on a recent warm day, I was accompanied by a pair of robins. One was much braver than the other and came within a couple of...

A talk given by Ailsa Claybourn On the 7th March we were delighted to welcome Ailsa Claybourn to the Village Hall to talk to us about...

Temperatures in March can still fall below zero so March can be difficult time for garden wildlife.  Here are a few tips to help the...

For the benefit of people, nature, and the planet. Kennet Valley Wetland Reserve will be an area of 16 hectares (40 acres) of restored...

Despite the early signs of Spring, February can be a very cold and wet month, so it’s really important to keep looking after the wildlife...

We will surely remember the flood of January 2024: the time when the valley was transformed into a waterland. For those who did not have...

The last few weeks have been dominated by rain, strong winds and flooding. Most of our water meadows have been flooded and swans, ducks,...